Practically Perfect in Every Way
My Diane Mott Davidson re-creation of the recipe for Double Shot Chocolate Cake just won 2nd place in the Bittersweet Baking contest! I’m very happy with the result. I don’t...
Hungry Heart Cookies aka Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Once upon a time I lived in Portland, Maine where there was a really great radio station called WCLZ. One morning, while driving to my cubicle dwelling office job, I...
Best Ever Banana Cake
When I was a kid I would get so excited if the bunch of bananas my mother brought home from the grocery store had a Chiquita Banana sticker. I’d quickly...
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Espresso Whipped Cream
You know how sometimes you’ll find a recipe and really want to make it, but then you start reading the ingredients list and the instructions and it will slowly dawn...
Chocolate Chip, Toasted Pecan, Coconut Cookies
I picked up Amanda Hesser’s book Cooking for Mr. Latte after the holidays at the Harvard Book Store. I honestly had no idea who she was. In reality I thought...
Banana Muffins
One of the really fabulous things about working for a college in Boston is that I get Snow Days! Obviously I had to take complete advantage of this luxurious and...
Appetizers, Baked Goods, Breakfast, Desserts, Doughnuts / Pastry, Holidays / Entertaining, Pies / Tarts, Snacks
Ina Garten’s Apple Turnovers
Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without gifts to yourself and this year Chris skipped that cookie downing middle man, Old Saint Nick, entirely and treated himself to an amazing new...
Mummy’s Microwave Peanut Brittle
We have evil “Shovel Men” at our apartment. They are in league with the “Crack of Dawn” commuters. Ever since it started snowing in Boston our apartment complex hired a...